Definition of Ectodermic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Exact synonyms: Ectodermal
Partainyms: Ectoderm, Ectoderm
Derivative terms: Ectoderm, Ectoderm

Medical Definition of Ectodermic

1. Of or relating to the ectoderm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ectodermic

ectochoroidea
ectocommensal
ectocommensal organism
ectocommensals
ectocornea
ectocrine
ectocuniform
ectocyst
ectocysts
ectoderm
ectodermal
ectodermal cloaca
ectodermal dysplasia
ectodermatosis
ectodermic (current term)
ectodermosis
ectodermosis erosiva pluriorificialis
ectoderms
ectodin
ectodomain
ectodomains
ectoentad
ectoental
ectoenzyme
ectoethmoid
ectogenesis
ectogenic
ectogenic teratosis
ectogenous

Literary usage of Ectodermic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"The small cells are ectodermic, they contribute to the formation of the epidermis, and apparently form also the ectoderm of the head region. ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"In the last-named group these organs consist of tubes of ectodermic origin, each of which bears an ampulla on the middle of its course, and its internal ..."

3. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"... are—(a) teeth (ectodermic rudiments of enamel combined with a ... it seems to arise as a pore in an ectodermic disc ; in other cases it is a simple ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"If in hydra we imagine the junction of the ectodermic process with the body of its cell ... of the waves of disturbance arising within the ectodermic eel). ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"In Xenia garcias the spicules are, as in X. umbellata, ectodermic in the ... in being minute and entirely ectodermic in the ..."

6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1883)
"vital communication between a sensitive ectodermic cell exposed to extrinsic accidents, utid a muscular, highly contractile cell (or a muscular process of ..."

7. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1904)
"Section through developing cochlea of twenty-one-day rabbit embryo: e, sections of ectodermic cochlear duct, or scala media, surrounded by delicate ..."

8. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... similar zooids of Hydractinia, which are tubular and possess small ectodermic tentacles x. (ii) The highly extensile tentacle-like and apparently solid ..."

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